Category Archives: Asian Issues

Japanese-Americans (Nisei and Sansei, Yonsei and Happa) playing (or played) in the Major League Baseball

I’ve been collecting information off- and on-line about baseball players who made it to the Majors of Japanese ancestry background. It has been tough because there is no record for of half- or quarter- Japanese, but it has been a very interesting process. Recently at a convention, I met very knowledgeable sports reporter from Honolulu [...]
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Japan-Jewish connection?

This is just too absolutely interesting… and too strange! From oniazuma blog’s Are the Japanese actually Jewish?. (Update) If you can’t see the video below, they are also on the YouTube in three parts. Part 1/3, Part 2/3, and Part 3/3. Nippon TV’s “Mino Monta’s Japanese Mystery” show had this very interesting (aside from the [...]
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All look same… again…

So, big news is that Kosuke Fukudome, a stud outfielder/slugger of Chunichi Dragons -my home town team- just filed for free agency. Losing star player is a sad news for my home town team. He has said to be hired San Diego-based Octagon Baseball as his agent and looking to come across the Pacific to [...]
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Back from Japan

Sushi Dinner! — Photo by Daigo. I just came back from two week vacation from Japan. It was nice to see all my family and relatives again. We ate very well. I have documented the food I ate in a flickr album. It makes a pretty awesome slide show. *** We were in Sapporo one [...]
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Rooting for Japanese athletes in US

In keeping with my JapaneseBallPlayers.com website sprit, I root for all and every Japanese athletes competing in the US. We just recently witnessed a devastating defeat… I am not talking about Ai Miyazato and Shiho Ohyama in the US Women’s Open golf, nor Ai Sugiyama’s defeat by Maria Sharapova in the third round of Wimbledon. [...]
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Prejudice is the child of ignorance

This whole Virginia Tech shooting is making me feel, how do I put it, very uneasy. I read late last night that the gunman was an Asian in a AP story (I believe), and today it was announced that he was Korean. I strongly believe that race or ethnicity of the gunman had anything to [...]
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Daisuke vs. Dice-K

It got me thinking after I had a pretty interesting conversation with my colleagues about Daisuke Matsuzaka’s nick name, Dice-K. His name, Daisuke, does sound the same as Dice-K, so pronunciation is correct, but I had a little trouble with the use of it. Example, they are using it in a sentence like “Welcome to [...]
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The Gyro

There you have it, folks. He throws gyro! Matsuzaka talked to press at the press conference in Ft. Myers yesterday, and the last question was “do you throw gyro?” His answer: “I knew I was going to be asked that question and I thought of few way of answering… I am going to say this, [...]
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Thoughts on North Korea’s nuke test

It’s all over the news: North Korea tested nuclear wepon this Monday, and I can’t stop reading about it. The more I read, the more I get scared. As I ‘ve writtten before, I am strongly against changing Article 9 in the Japanese constitution. I wondered if this “fear” of North Korea, (as real as [...]
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Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

May is Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month. I guess it is to mark two dates: The first Japanese immigrants arrived in the United States on May 7, 1843 and the completion of the transcontinental railroad, a hard work by Chinese workers, on May 10, 1869. Amazing to think of Japanese people coming to US in 1843, [...]
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